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98 copies.
Charlemont Tyler Memorial Library - ADULT Fiction
FICTION Gonzalez
1 available
FICTION Gonzalez
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots, all in the wake of Hurricane María. It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers....
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On Shelf
252 copies, 31 people are on the wait list.
Charlemont Tyler Memorial Library - ADULT Fiction
FICTION Kingsolver
1 available
FICTION Kingsolver
1 available
eAudiobook
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84 copies, 58 people are on the wait list.
eBook
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26 copies, 229 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
26 copies, 229 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
51 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Charlemont Tyler Memorial Library - Large Print
LARGE PRINT Kingsolver
1 available
LARGE PRINT Kingsolver
1 available
Description
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves,...
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Available from another library
47 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
62 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
33 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
33 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.
Available from another library
77 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the...
Author
On Shelf
151 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Charlemont Tyler Memorial Library - ADULT Fiction
FICTION Vuong
1 available
FICTION Vuong
1 available
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17 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 37 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 37 people are on the wait list.
Description
A letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born--a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam--and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is...
5) Horse
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26 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
7 copies, 53 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
7 copies, 53 people are on the wait list.
Available from another library
48 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history. Kentucky, 1850. Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. As the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young...
6) Birnam Wood
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On Shelf
124 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Charlemont Tyler Memorial Library - Mystery
FICTION Catton
1 available
FICTION Catton
1 available
Available Online
21 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
21 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Birnam Wood is on the move . . . A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand's South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, an undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. For years, the group has struggled to break even. To occupy the farm...
Author
Series
Amgash novels volume 4
On Shelf
168 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Charlemont Tyler Memorial Library - ADULT Fiction
FICTION Strout
1 available
FICTION Strout
1 available
Available from another library
40 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
5 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 7 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 7 people are on the wait list.
Description
"As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled away to a small town in Maine by her ex-husband and on-again, off-again friend, William. For the next several months, it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the moody, swirling sea. Rich with empathy and emotion, Lucy by the Sea vividly captures the fear and struggles that come with isolation,...
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Available from another library
174 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
30 copies, 30 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
18 copies, 149 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
18 copies, 149 people are on the wait list.
Available from another library
31 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Available from another library
5 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry"-- Provided by publisher.
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard,...
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On Shelf
182 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Charlemont Tyler Memorial Library - ADULT Fiction
FICTION Ng
1 available
FICTION Ng
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
Description
"From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade,...
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Available Online
9 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
eBook
Checked Out
9 copies, 31 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
9 copies, 31 people are on the wait list.
Description
"For lovers of Meg Wolitzer, Maria Semple, and Jenny Offill comes this raucous, poignant celebration of life, love, and friendship at its imperfect and radiant best. Edith and Ashley have been best friends for over forty-two years. They've shared the mundane and the momentous together: trick or treating and binge drinking; Gilligan's Island reruns and REM concerts; hickeys and heartbreak; surprise Scottish wakes; marriages, infertility, and children....
